Microsoft Details Windows 8 Consumer Preview

Today at MWC, Microsoft detailed the Windows 8 Consumer Preview. Over 100,000 changes have been made since developer preview release and Microsoft is improving the code everyday. Microsoft said that Windows 8 will allow hardware manufacturers to innovate on form factors as we saw some of them during CES.

New People hub similar to Windows Phone to organize contacts across services like Windows Live, Google, etc,.

Microsoft also demoed the new Messaging hub similar to Windows Phone where you can IM people on Facebook, Windows Live Messenger and more.

Windows 8 will work perfectly on both touch screens and keyboard-mouse setup. Its desgined for both the cases.

Share charm allows you to share items like pictures, links, etc throughout the system.

Your classic Windows Desktop is still there. Its much improved with Ribbon UI.

You can snap Metro apps and desktop apps side by side and you can pin folders, files on Metro Start screen.